China’s first-ever theme park dedicated to sex just experienced “construction interruptus,” said Arthur Levine in About.com, when the local government in Chongqing determined it was socially inappropriate and ordered it bulldozed. The unfinished park, called Love Land, was to offer “titillating” exhibits such as sex-technique workshops. (watch video news roundup, with photos)
It was the giant G-string-topped pair of women’s legs that went “too far for China’s prudish authorities,” said Jane Macartney in The Times of London. Park manager Lu Xiaoqing had envisioned Love Land as a way to break the “ancient taboo” of talking openly about sex, but this “apparent act of altruism” didn’t sit well with the censors, or many of the locals.
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